The Nex Playground features no physical controls. Instead, like with an Xbox Kinect, players interact with games and menus using their bodies. The console launched in 2023 and cost $200. Sales were slow at first, but during the holiday shopping season in 2024, the device went viral thanks to TikTok and online creators. This led to it selling out and a price increase in 2025 to $250. Last year, the Nex Playground outsold the PS5 and Xbox during a short period of time. Nex says it has sold around 1 million units of the device since launch. The ongoing RAM crisis has made it harder and harder for
RAM Crisis Forces Nex To Raise Price On Playground Kids ConsoleNo. Every analyst I spoke to said that gaming hardware costs were only going to keep rising, with most analysts giving an estimate of somewhere between 2027 and 2029 before prices began to ease, if they eased at all. As Rhys Elliott, head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics, explains, “The increases happening now are lagging indicators, not the peak. Platform holders and manufacturers run on long-term supply contracts and inventory buffers that initially shielded retail pricing. As those contracts expire, companies are renegotiating component costs at today’s inflated rate, and that pressur
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